The intention of Web services is to pave the way for vision
fulfillment of collaborative commerce by removing constraints to
business imposed by IT in its present form.
The loose coupling model of Web services allows enterprises to
overcome the myriad ways businesses use to reach their customers and
partners today, to adopt new business models right in time and to
serve and utilize adhocracy of business transactions and processes -
the promise of business agility!
The Web services model is independent of whether the components
being composed belong to the same organization or form a hybrid
service using functions from many individual companies which
empowers organizations to benefit from collaborative synergies of
their trading community and to focus on their core business.
Business Value through Web Services
The introduction of Web services is delivering business value
right away!
Generation of new revenue streams by exposing and combining legacy
applications and functions
Reducing complexity by wrapping functions or applications with
standard interfaces
Achieve interoperability between systems by reducing up-front
system knowledge
Improve efficiencies using open standards
Reduce maintenance costs while increasing enterprise flexibility
when making improvements or alterations to enterprise-level business
processes
Operate more agile by building an open, extensible,
standards-based infrastructure
